Illness Lesson
Illness Lesson A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICELONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "Astoundingly original." --The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the award-winning…
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Illness Lesson
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICELONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "Astoundingly original." --The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the award-winning debut story collection We Show What We Have Learned, a vivid work of historical fiction with shocking and eerie connections to our own time.At their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, promise a groundbreaking education for young women. After all, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated, unsuited to the narrow roles afforded women in nineteenth-century New England.When a mysterious flock of red birds descends on the town, Caroline alone seems to find them unsettling. But Caroline has grave misgivings.
But it's not long before the assembled students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms: rashes, seizures,